{"id":5207,"date":"2022-09-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=5207"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:23:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:23:47","slug":"in-defense-of-paper-boarding-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/20\/in-defense-of-paper-boarding-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of Paper Boarding Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call me out of touch, but I don\u2019t use airline electronic boarding passes on my phone unless I\u2019m really, really late and don\u2019t have time to get one. Why? When I use a paper ticket:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The battery doesn\u2019t die on my boarding pass<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t need to worry about the brightness setting on my boarding pass<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t need to worry about FaceID, TouchID, or a passcode to unlock my boarding pass<\/li>\n<li>When entering a lounge or asking for help at the gate, I don\u2019t need to hand over my phone<\/li>\n<li>I have a place to put my checked baggage claim stickers (though I rarely actually check a bag)<\/li>\n<li>I can still use my phone while waiting for my boarding group to be called instead of constantly fiddling with the screen to prevent it from dimming or locking at an in-opportune time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>#WorldsLamestTravelHack<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5374\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_5672.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_5672.jpg 640w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_5672-225x300.jpg 225w\" width=\"420\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Weird flex but ok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call me out of touch, but I don\u2019t use airline electronic boarding passes on my phone unless I\u2019m really, really late and don\u2019t have time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5207"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6942,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207\/revisions\/6942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}